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Solaris 8 Advanced Installation Guide

IA: Upgrading a System

If you intend to use the Solaris 8 Interactive Installation Program to upgrade Solaris software on an Intel 32-bit processor architecture (IA) based system, follow the directions in this section. If you intend to install Solaris software only, go to "IA: Using the Solaris 8 Interactive Installation Program".

IA: To Get Started

  1. Check the documentation:

    • Check the Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Release Notes and vendor release notes to ensure that the software you use is still supported in the new release.

    • Check the Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Hardware Compatibility List to make sure your hardware is still supported.

    • See the documentation that came with your system to make sure your system and devices are still supported by the new release.

    • Check for all the available patches you might need. The most recent patch list is provided at http://sunsolve.sun.com.

    • Check Table 5-6 for known problems. This list is not complete. Always check vendor and third-party software documentation for additional upgrade instructions.

      Table 5-6 IA: Software That Requires Changes Before Upgrading

      Software 

      Problem Summary 

      Prestoserve 

      If you start the upgrade process by shutting down the system using init 0, you can lose data. See the Prestoserve documentation for shutdown instructions.

  2. Determine the language you want to use to upgrade Solaris. You can select:

    • English

    • French

    • German

    • Italian

    • Japanese

    • Korean

    • Spanish

    • Swedish

    • Simplified Chinese

    • Traditional Chinese

  3. Make sure you have at least the following CDs:

    • Solaris 8 Software 1 of 2 Intel Platform Edition and Solaris 8 Software 2 of 2 Intel Platform Edition

    • Solaris 8 Languages Intel Platform Edition

IA: To Plan for Upgrading

  1. If you intend to upgrade through the network and you have not preconfigured your system configuration information, gather the following information about the system on which you intend to upgrade the Solaris operating environment.

    Information 

    Example  

    To find the information (with Solaris installed), use  

    Host name 

    crater

    uname -n

    Host IP address 

    129.221.2.1

    ypmatch system_name hosts or

    nismatch system_name hosts.org_dir

    Subnet mask 

    255.255.255.0

    more /etc/netmasks

    Type of name service (DNS, NIS, or NIS+) 

    		 

    passwd:     files nis
group:      files nis

hosts:      xfn nis [NOTFOUND=return] files
networks:   nis [NOTFOUND=return] files
protocols:  nis [NOTFOUND=return] files
rpc:        nis [NOTFOUND=return] files
ethers:     nis [NOTFOUND=return] files
netmasks:   nis [NOTFOUND=return] files	
bootparams: nis [NOTFOUND=return] files
publickey:  nis [NOTFOUND=return] files

netgroup:   nis

automount:  files nis
aliases:    files nis

services:   files nis
sendmailvars:   files

    cat /etc/nsswitch.conf

    Domain name 

    lbloom.West.Arp.COM

    domainname

    Host name of name server 

    thor75

    ypwhich

    Host IP address of name server 

    		 


    129.153.75.20

    ypmatch nameserver_name hosts or

    nismatch nameserver_name hosts.org_dir